Blog entry number one

I've never really paid any attention to blogs.  I've read a few postings here and there when they've involved friends or a topic I'm interested in, but I have certainly never followed any.  I do so much dense academic and scientific reading for work and school that I have a hard time reading things that aren't published in peer reviewed journals.  So the fact that I am starting to write one now seems a bit ironic.  However, in the interest of self-improvement I have been meaning to start a journal of some sort for a while now.  Hopefully the blog format will satisfy that desire and posting will become routine enough for me to stick with it.

But how do I start things off?  Who am I writing to?  Do I write to whatever audience happens to create itself or do I write to myself and let the audience look in?

Dear Diary,

Today I started a blog...